"Picasso marked the end of a historical process that had begun in the mid-18th century. The absolute aesthetic impact of painting and the autonomous status of draughtsmanship and colour were established. This was a fundamental change. Where once content and form, message and image had needed to harmonize, now form became dominant, and indeed became the content. If ways of seeing, conceptualization, and cognition were to be considered inseparable, then the cognitive content of painting must logically enough be purely a matter of how the observer looked at it. Inevitably, once this view gained ground, painting would tend to lose its mimetic character and become detached from the things which it claimed to represent. French 19th-century art and the art of post-Romantic northern Europe underwent a parallel move towards greater abstraction, and greater autonomy of image. That evolution peaked in Picasso's Demoiselles d'Avignon." ("Picasso", p. 72)
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